Posts by Jeremy W. Richter

In Episode 28 of Lawyerpreneur, Claire Parsons discusses how her mindfulness practice has helped her be a happier person and a better lawyer. We talk about how writing and speaking about mindfulness and struggles she has experienced has opened up a new community to her. And in my favorite segment on this episode, we discuss the importance of getting comfortable with your own weirdness.You can find and follow Claire Parsons on LinkedIn and on her YouTube channel. I also mention for the first time in this interview a novel I'm writing under a pseudonym. If you're interested, you can find...

When you love your work as an intellectual property rights lawyer and you're an artist at heart and you have small children, that might all culminate into writing a children's book to help children understand what intellectual property is from an early age. Or at least that's what happened for Atlanta-based lawyer, Becki C. Lee. Teaching Kids about Intellectual Property with Becki C. Lee A month or so into the COVID shutdown, she had an idea for a children's book about intellectual property rights. She sat down and wrote out a poem about what patents, trademarks, and copyright are so...

For as long as I've had the idea for Lawyerpreneur, Marc Randazza was always on the list of people I wanted to talk to. Sometimes when you've been thinking about something for so long and built up an expectation for it, you find that the thing can't actually live up to it. But that wasn't the situation with Marc Randazza. I derived the title from an H. L. Mencken quote that Marc recently tweeted: “The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are...

Be authentic. Be true. Present your successes. Talk about your failures. Discuss your struggles. Provide useful content. Develop relationships, not networks. Alex Su sees these ideas as fundamental to his social media marketing success. But they aren't just principles he applies, they are a part of who he has formed himself into. Alex Su talks marketing, career changes, and self awareness You can listen here or on your favorite podcast apps: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, TuneIn, and RSS. Today's show is sponsored by ALPS, the nation’s largest direct writer of lawyers’ malpractice insurance. Right now you...

For a while after my interview with Sam Mollaei, I was thinking about our conversation (and there was a lot to think about). I was struck with a line from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, when Butch says, "I got vision and the rest of the world wears bifocals." That's what it was like talking with Sam. He's applying proven business principles -- like sales funnels, automation, and scalability -- that five years from now, other lawyers will still be arguing with themselves that those ideas just wont work in their law practices. Sam's got vision while so many...

After a career in corporate America, Ruth Kaufman launched into her second act, leaving the security of her day job behind. Kaufman had been acting and doing voice work for two decades, a long enough runaway that she was confident in her ability to succeed in the creative work she was prepared to make her day job. Ruth Kaufman's Second Act In Episode 23 of Lawyerpreneur, Ruth Kaufman and I discuss her second act of acting, writing award-winning novels, and other creative work. You can listen here or on your favorite podcast apps: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart...

This is the Lawyerpreneur episode that I should have recorded yesterday. That I should have released yesterday. But I didn't. You want to know why? Because I chickened out. Because this episode is about how personal relationships are central to our businesses and necessary for our long-term success. And it's somewhat personal, so I bailed on it. Then I felt ashamed of myself the rest of the day. This is a topic that I've been thinking about for a week. Ever since I went to visit my mentor last week who is in the last stages of terminal cancer. So...

Our regularly scheduled programming got derailed by both life and work this past week. So Episode 21 of Lawyerpreneur is a short episode with updates about various projects I'm working on both on my own and with other lawyers, and how you can interact with them. You can listen here or on your favorite podcast apps: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, TuneIn, and RSS. Today's show is sponsored by ALPS, the nation’s largest direct writer of lawyers’ malpractice insurance. Right now you can get 25% off one CLE seminar from ALPS. Go to alpsinsurance.com/cle and use promo...